Coloniality of the US/Mexico border : power, violence, and the decolonial imperative / Roberto D. Hernández.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hernández, Roberto, 1979- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Violence--Mexican-American Border Region--Sociological aspects.

Violence.

Violence--Mexican-American Border Region.

Ciudad Juárez (Mexico)--Social conditions.

Ciudad Juárez (Mexico).

El Paso (Tex.)--Social conditions.

El Paso (Tex.).

Tijuana (Baja California, Mexico)--Social conditions.

Tijuana (Baja California, Mexico).

San Ysidro (San Diego, Calif.)--Social conditions.

San Ysidro (San Diego, Calif.).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (265 pages) : illustrations, maps

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Coloniality of the United States Mexico border

Place of Publication:

Tucson : The University of Arizona Press, 2018.

Summary:

National borders are often taken for granted as normal and necessary for a peaceful and orderly global civil society. Roberto D. Hernández here advances a provocative argument that borders--and border violence--are geospatial manifestations of long histories of racialized and gendered colonial violence. In Coloniality of the U-S///Mexico Border, Hernández offers an exemplary case and lens for understanding what he terms the "epistemic and cartographic prison of modernity/coloniality." He adopts "coloniality of power" as a central analytical category and framework to consider multiple forms of real and symbolic violence (territorial, corporeal, cultural, and epistemic) and analyzes the varied responses by diverse actors, including local residents, government officials, and cultural producers. Based on more than twenty years of border activism in San Diego-Tijuana and El Paso-Ciudad Juárez, this book is an interdisciplinary examination that considers the 1984 McDonald's massacre, Minutemen vigilantism, border urbanism, the ongoing murder of women in Ciudad Juárez, and anti-border music. Hernández's approach is at once historical, ethnographic, and theoretically driven, yet it is grounded in analyses and debates that cut across political theory, border studies, and cultural studies. The volume concludes with a theoretical discussion of the future of violence at--and because of--national territorial borders, offering a call for epistemic and cartographic disobedience.

Contents:

Introduction. Coloniality of power, violence and the U-S///Mexico border

1. At home in the nation: on the structural embeddedness of vigilantism and colonial racism

2. Territorial violence and the structural location of border(ed) communities

3. The 1984 McDonald's massacre and the politics of monuments, memory and militarization

4. Las mujeres asesinadas de Juarez and the double-bind of their representation(ability)

5. "The borders crossed us": anti-Mexican racism as anti-Indianism

Conclusion. Coloniality and the decolonial imperative.

Notes:

Includes discography and filmography (pages 215-216), bibliographical references (pages 217-236) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-8165-3884-0

9780816538843

OCLC:

1051140682